The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS) is a research and teaching centre with a library devoted to the study of the period from approximately 1350 to 1700. The CRRS supervises an undergraduate program in Renaissance Studies, organizes lectures and seminars, and maintains an active series of publications.

Located in Room 301 of the E. J. Pratt Library, Victoria College, CRRS is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to Friday during the Fall and Winter terms. The CRRS observes the holiday schedule of the University of Toronto.

Summer hours: 10:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., Monday to Friday.

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Upcoming Events

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Check out the Fall 2009 Newsletter.

The CRRS is pleased to host the international conference Rethinking Early Modern Print Culture. Check the conference website. Abstracts due December 15, 2009. Conference dates: October 22-24, 2010.

Fresh off the press!

CRRS Publications is pleased to announce the arrival of two new books: Molière's The Lavish Lovers, translated and introduced by David Edney and Ars Reminiscendi: Mind and Memory in Renaissance Culture, edited by Donald Beecher and Grant Williams, the most recent volume in our Essays and Studies series.

This complements the arrival in the Fall 2008 of

Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas, edited by Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke, and Renaissance Medievalisms, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler.

Upcoming Events:

19 November, "Presenting Renaissance Music on the Modern Concert Stage," TRRC talk by David Fallis

27 November, "The Visual Art and the World of Martin Luther," Friday Workshop by Yongjoon Ahn

28 November, "SONATA VARIATA – Violin music of the 17th century," concert by Musicians in Ordinary

04 December, "Supping Full of Horrors: Geoffrey Wright's Screen Adaptation of Macbeth," Friday Workshop by Philippa Sheppard

Upcoming Calls for Papers and Fellowships:

Communicating Culture in Early Modern Europe, a ‘Making Publics’ Research Project at Concordia University. Deadline for applications Dec 15, 2009. For more information, see the call for applications.

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (EMWJ) invites submissions to an interdisciplinary Forum on Sex and the Early Modern Woman, slated for publication in Volume 5 (2010). For more information see the call for submissions. The deadline is Sept 22, 2009.
Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (ongoing)
Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal (ongoing)

CRRS Publications is pleased to announce a new series: The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe, which succeeds the University of Chicago Press print series. For more information, click here.